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Is "The Naked Kiss" Missing Copyright Notice?

Dear Rich IP Blog

Nowadays, the publication of a film without copyright notice won't effect ownership, but in 1964, the penalty was draconian. If the copyright owner failed to include a copyright notice on "The Naked Kiss," then it would likely be in the public domain. Is the copyright notice missing?

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Google Addresses Scraped and Spun Content

Plagiarism Today

This was in stark contrast to what Mueller said in June 2021, when he openly admitted that, on occasion, Google can accidentally rank copied content over original works and encouraged people to file copyright notices. For cases where filing a copyright notice is appropriate, that is still likely the best approach.

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Facebook’s Plagiarism Problems Are Deeper Than You Realize

Plagiarism Today

As long as copyright notices are relatively rare, and the plagiarized content remains popular, there’s not much motivation for them to try. Back in 2011, Google had a serious problem. Dubbed the Panda (or Farmer) update , it went live on February 24, 2011 and had a serious impact on both content farms and scraping sites.

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Is Generative AI Fair Use of Copyright Works? NYT v. OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

style fair use: South Korea adopted it in 2011 , and it has been considered for adoption by Australia. Indeed, it has been called “the most troublesome in the whole law of copyright.” There is no general right of attribution under United States copyright law , which only recognizes a right of attribution for artists.

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VPNs: Russia Forces Google to Delete Masses of Links Amid Ukraine Invasion

TorrentFreak

Between 2011 and 2013, protests took place in Russia in response to allegations of election-rigging and a lack of civil liberties in Russia. It is normal for the Lumen Database to redact targeted URLs in copyright notices it makes generally available. Google Removes Links But Cannot Reveal Them.

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U.S. Supreme Court Fixes Ninth Circuit’s Test for Mistakes in Copyright Registrations—Unicolors v. H&M (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

After the jury verdict, H&M asserted for the first time that Unicolors’ copyright registration was invalid, because it had improperly registered 31 different fabric designs together as works “included in a single unit of publication.” b)(4)(i)(A) (2011). Copyright Office before an infringement lawsuit could be filed. (For

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. 2011), aff’d , 283 F.3d In Random House, Inc. Rosetta Books, LLC , 150 F. 2d 613 (S.D.N.Y. 3d 490 (2d Cir.

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